The world seems to become more violent and dangerous year by year. Truly mankind cries, “Peace and safety,” but there is neither peace nor safety. According to the Geneva Academy there are over 110 armed conflicts going on in the world at this time. Criminal gangs are growing more powerful and challenge even the most powerful nations in the world. Crime is running rampant and law enforcement is becoming less effective and increasingly corrupt. Religion is being used to foment hatred and genocide against entire ethnic groups. Nuclear weapons threaten the very existence of mankind.
In the days of Noah, God saw the corruption of the people of the earth and said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.” Genesis 6.7 (NASB) He decided to flood the earth and remove men from the earth except for eight people. God commissioned Noah to build an ark, a ship, so that he could save the animals that God chose and the members of Noah’s family that the earth could be replenished with life.
Jesus compared the last days of the age to the days of Noah. “For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be” Matthew 24.37-39 (NASB). Jesus said that He would return in that day to rescue His own church and bring a terrible judgment on the earth. How are we to escape the violence and hatred of this present day and avoid the coming judgment? Jesus told us how,
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not condemned; he who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.” John 3.16—19
And,
“I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” John 11.
If we have faith in Jesus enough to repent of our sins, humbly confess them to God, and receive Jesus, we will be born anew by the Spirit of God and be saved from the wrath to come. We will have eternal life assured in heaven. Thanks be to God!
Receive Jesus Christ and live! He is the ONLY WAY!
George Cargill